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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-24
TEMPERANCE READING.
WHAT SHE DID.

Christians Dickson and Her Fight For
Temperance In Pcnnsylvania's Early
Times.
Many stories are told of the courage
of the women of that early generation
who first broke ground in the forests of
Pennsylvania and Virginia. They
were in constant peril from wild
beasts and from hostile Indians, but
with heroic patience endured hardships
labor and disease. An example of
another kind of courage is preserved
by the descendants of Christiana Dick
son, the wife of one of the first settlers
of Erie County, Pa. She was small,
blue-eyed, low-voiced woman, ex-
tremely timid by nature; on only one
point she was resolute: She. had hor-
ror of drunkenness. She lived in the
days when the use of liquor was uni
versal. Whisky was as common a
drink as water among these hardy,
hard-working pioneers. A Temper
ance or abstinence society was unheard
of. But when her sons were born. she
resolved, as far as she could, to put a
stop to whisky drinking in her home.
Her husband being absent from home,
her brothers called for the help of the
neighbors, according to the custom of
the time. to put up barn needed on
her farm. They all assembled and
went to work. while she prepared a
great dinner. After an hour or two,
whisky was asked for. One of her
brothers came to the house for it; she
refused to provide it, to make her
friends drunk. Her other brothers,
and at last an elder in the church.
came to reason with her; to tell her
that she would be accused of mean
ness. Without word. the little wom-
an went out to the barn, and barring
her head, stepped upon a log and
spoke to them in a faltering voice.
my neighbors," said she, "this is a
strange thing. Three of you are my
brothers, three of you are elders in the
church. all of you are my friends. !
have prepared for you the best dinner
in my power. If you refuse to raise
the barn without liquor, so be it. But
before 1 will provide whisky to give
you. these timbers shall rot where they
lie."
The men angrily left the work and
went home; the little woman returned
to the house, and for hours cried as
though her heart would break. But
the next day every man came back,
went heartily to work, enjoyed her
good dinner, and said not word about
whisky.
Afterwards the use of whisky at barn
raisings was discontinued in the coun-
ty. Her sons grew up strong, vigorous
men, who did good work in helping to
civilize and Christianize the world;
their descendants are all of high type
of intellectual and moral men and
women. If she had yielded this little
point they might have degenerated,
like many of their neighbors, into
drunkards and spendthrifts.
Our stout-hearted pioneer forefath-
ers redeemed the land, and drove out
the wild beasts and serpents; but there
are still vices and malignant customs
to be conquered, and for the work we
need women of high souls and gentle
spirits like Christiana Dickson. -
Youths Companion.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-24
The True Mother.

Two women came before mandarin
in China, each of them protesting that
she was the mother of little child they
had brought with them. They were SO
eager and so positive that the mandarin
was sorely puzzled. He retired to con.
suit with his wife, who was a wise and
clever woman, whose opinion was held
in great repute in the neighborhood.
She requested five minutes in which
to deliberate. At the end of that time
she spoke.
''Let the servants catch me large
fish in the river" she commanded,
"and it be brought me here alive"
This was done.
Bring me now the infant" she said,
"but leave the women in the outer
chamber"
This was done, too. Then the man.
darin's wife caused the baby to be un-
dressed. and its clothes put OH the
large fish.
"Carry the creature outside now. and
throw it into the river in the sight of
the two women"
The servant obeyed her orders, fling
ing the fish into the water, where it
rolled about and struggled, disguised,
no doubt. by the wrappings in which it
was swaddled.
Without moments pause, one of the
mothers threw herself into the river
with shrek. She must save her
drowning child.
without doubt she is the true
mother" she declared; and the man.
darin's wife commanded that she
should be rescued, and the child given
to her.
"Without doubt she is the true
mother" she declared; and the man.
DARN nodded his head, and thought his
wife the wisest woman in the "Flowery
Kingdom"
Meantime, the false mother crept
away. She was found out in her i'm
posture, and the mandarin's wife for
got all about her in the occupation of
dressing the little baby in the best silks
she could find in her wardrobe
ChurchmQu.
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II Means More Liberty.

1t is. fear, common error, bretll-
rem, that man must part with some
portion of himself, that he must impair
or enfeeble his life, in order to be what
God requires. Men hear it declared
that. in becoming little children, hum
bic, meek, poor in spirit, in giving up
their own will, in getting rid of self
that thus, only thus, can they become
acceptable to God; and often they in,-
agine that this implies n surrender, or
dwariing. of our proper manhood
a subtra ction of, or loss of, life. No;
the Gospel requires us to be not less,
but more, than we were, it holds ont
to us. through Christ, a life more
abundant, by virtue Of which we rise
to greater and nobler nights of atone
ment and service. All the seeming
losses which it demands. are but the
removal of weaknesses that stunt us,
are but the leveling of barriers, but the
letting-out of the soul into fuller libcr-
ty, and vitality. and power.-Rev. Ca
non DuckUOrth.
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TEMPERANCE ITEMS:

The education most needed by the
youth of our fair land is one that shall
teach them, not only to decline Latin
substantive, but also to decline drink.
--LoweU Citizen.
COUNT ToLsToI, the distinguished
Russian author, under the title Of
1.-THE Invention of Whisky" has
sounded an alarm against the devasta-
ton wrought by alcohol in that coun-
try.
WHAT hard work it is to deal with
our own countrymen! How are we
baffled by their poverty, their ignor-
ance, their sin! You have only to
battle with a single vice-drunkenness.
to wit-to feel what a monster it is to
overcome.-Spurgeon.
IF Solomon were advising people, to-
day, not to look on the wine when it is
red, he would give as one reason that
it is colored with aniline, purpurine,
fuchsine and other poisonous COM
pounds. doctored with salicylic acid
and sweetened with glucose.
On, yes; alcohol will warm you up,
but who finds the fuel? When you
take food, that is fuel, and, as it burns
out, you keep warm. But when you
take alcohol to warm you, you are like
a man who sets his house on fire, and
warns his fingers by it as it burns.-
Selected.
A BROOKLYN saloon-keeper has
figured it up and given it away that
there is profit OF over 800 per cent.
| in lager beer, and this is about equally
divided between maker and seller. He
says that seven different substitutes
are used in place of hops. each one of
which has been declared injurious.
WHEN man is fully under it's
domination, he would drink, were rum
placed before him, if he knew that the
next moment his soul would be re-
quired of him. Once under its full
control, the victim drinks and drinks
until he is beggared and unfit for work
or business, until his wife and family
become objects of charity. and finally
the grave closes over his bloated, rum
sodden, dishonored carcass Toledo
Blade.
Mr.. w. S. GAME, NJ. p, in recent
speech, said: Previous to the army
Of occupation there was scarcely such
a thing in Egypt as public house in
our sense of the word. There are now
in Cairo. with a population of 4OO,OO
most of whom are Mohammedans.
whose religion prohibits them the use
of intoxicants, 800 or 500 public
houses. He saw in Cairo tcetotal
meeting of Arabs being addressed by
native Egyptians in eloquent language.
in which they denounced the Europeans
for introducing this demoralizing traf-
tic into their midst"
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FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
A PATCHWORK QUILT.

Tn the days OF ever so long ago.
My dear little grandmamma learned to sew.
Great .grnndmamma cut with q careful eye
Dozens of patches, each true as die.
Then she bastcd them neatly. part by part,
And arranged the colors with careful art.
There was Turkey red and indigo blue,
With India chintz that was warranted true,
And was stamped in patterns Of ancient times,
With wondrous blossoms from tropical climes,
That never would wither, or fade, or wilt,
On dear little grandmamma's patchwork quilt.
Great grandmamma took her needles and
Put thimble on finger, and then she said:
my daughter, stop playing come sit by me;
will start the stitches US they should be.
"Sew over and over, fine, straight row
That is the way little girls should sew"
Grandmamma sat down, with pursed-up lip,
Hor thimble all ready on finger-tip,
And frown which looked very solemn and wise
Made criss.cross wrinkle between her eyes.
She took up her block and began to sew,
But ah, how strangely those stitches did go!
Crooked, and crooked. and jagged, and queer,
Some were too far OF and some were too near.
The thread got knotted. the needle it bent,
And then wouldn't go the way that she meant,
But pricked her so hard that she cried out
"Oh!
There's no use in trying; CON not sew."
Then great-grandmamma tool, grandmamma on
| her knee.
Don't cry, and try again, daughter" said she.
"Scw over and over, fine. straight row.
That is the way little girls should sew"
So grandmamma sewed until it was DONE
That block Of her quilt. the very first one.
Then great-grandma said that every day
A block must be pieced before she could play.
So she sewed through autumn, winter and
spring,
And into the summer-dear little thing!
And wasn't she glad. one sunny June day,
TO patch the last block, and lay it away
Next, oil must be pieced together, you know,
Euch block in its place the way it should Co.
So she matched them carefully, each bright hue,
The green with the scarlet, orange and blue.
Then after the quilt was put on the frame,
Lots OF great-grandaunts and grand-cousins
came,
And in pattern Of curly-cue scroll.
With dainty stitches, they quilted the whole.
And when it was finished they all agreed
The quilt did grandinamma credit indeed;
For no little girl Of her age, they said,
In town, could make such quilt for her bed.
| And so, in one corner, to keep her fame.
In permanent ink they marked her name,
Wi h down strokes heavy and up strokes fine
"hehitabel Patterson, ,.dgsd nine"
| And it took year from the day twas begun,
| 10 patch it, and quilt it, and finish it done.
| Eleanor A. Hunter, in Goldea Days.
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lno on Guard.

Mrs. Carroll had come to spend the
day, and brought her baby. There was
great time over the arrival, every
body crowding around to get peep at
his babyship; one taking off his cloak,
another his cap. and the children bring
ing their rubber toys and picture books
TO amuse him.
Baby had royal time that morning,
and he laughed and cooed, and chat
tered his magpie lingo, till his blue
eyes wouldn't stay open any longer.
His mother cuddled him down on her
arm, and with two or three swayings
Of her rocking-chair, he was fast
asleep.
On one side of tho fireplace was a
shoe-box, covered and cushioned with
patch. 1t made quite a pretty otto
man. and Mrs. Carroll thought baby
might have his nap on this, as we'll as
in his crib at home. So pillow and
shawl were brought, and his babyship
snugly tucked up for an hour.
Pretty soon in came Ino, a little
black and white dog, the pet of the
family. Mrs. Carroll did not know
that Ino was allowed to lay on the
patch cushion as often as he liked, and
that he counted it his own.
He was rather astonished at finding
the baby on his sofa, but concluded it
was all right, and there was room for
him. too. So he jumped up and curled
himself in round ball beside the baby,
pu ting one paw over him. OF course
the long, 1.-THE, slender paw could not
hurt the little one, and there they
slept together for some time. Mrs.
Carroll was in the next room at din
ner.
When the baby woke, she came to
take him up, and 10! Ino refused to let
her touch him. No doubt he thought
the baby had been given to the family
he lived with, and that it was his duty
to guard him. Mrs. Carroll was not
used to dogs, and she was frightened.
20 my baby! The dog will hurt my
baby!' she screamed.
1no's master came to her relief.
"He won't hurt him." he said, "but
he won't let you touch him." and tax.
ing up the baby he laid him in his
mothers arms. Ino, thinking he had
fulfilled his trust, jumped down and
ran off to his dinner.-M. o. j. IN
| YOUTHS Companion.
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Nature Cries Out.

Try to give dog whisky to drink
and you will see him shudder with
fear and run away. A rabbit, which
was given whisky, one spoonful
every day for the sake of experiment.
died in few days with terrible cramps
of the stomach. Place good micro
scope over one drop of water and you
see hundreds of little animals living
and swimming Justify and cheerfully
over drop of whisky and you will find
no life whatever, death reigning there.
Then mix them together and you will
witness the following spectacle like
this: The poor animalcula, lively and
cheerful though they were but one
moment before, at once begin to move
about most frantically; they are taken
with spasms, with which they suffer
a little while, until death relieves them.
Hence you may realize the nature Of
whisky and the horror which nature
herself has instilled into every creature
against it. But what are these in COM
parison with the susceptibility of the
huihdh uohy W tHc TuluOus cucCIS III
alcoholic drinks. the traces of which
are often and Enthusiastically found in
the different disorders of the stomach
and bowels, the heart, the liver, tho
kidneys. the throat and the larnyx, the
brain, the skin, the five senses, and the
mind itself? Who can tell the amount
of trouble and pain and misery caused
by only one of these Affections? How
terribly ruined and deforued by drink
is the human body, the most noble
work in the whole of Gods visible
world. that ''temple of the Holy Ghost"
as the great St. Paul has SO grandly
styled it A short time ago l saw
eight representations of a mans stom-
ach laid open and affected with those
disorders of which alcohol is so prolific.
They We're taken from Nature and SO
disgusting that people who were shown
them could neither eat nor drink on
that day.-Fdther LOiSOn.
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The Best Soldiers Temperate.

DR.. Dawson Burns forwards an ac-
count of the work accomplished by the
Soldiers Total Abstinence Association,
formed in India in 1862, and cordially
approved by successive Viceroys and
Commanders-in-Chief and the military
authorities, including the Duke of Con-
naught. 1t appears that in August
last there were II, 257 men and officers
of the Indian army enrolled as men,
bers of the association. An analysis of
the habits and health Of the men of the
First battalion Leinster regiment, sea-
toned at Fyzabad, shows that from
january l, 1884, to June 3G, 1886, there
was an average of 267 abstapers in the
regiment and Cos non-abstainers; and
table of the results shows the follow
ing among other instructive figures:
Defaulters, Ill abstainers, 1888 nom
abstainers; imprisoned by command
ing cfiicer, 2 abstainers, 2S0 non-ab-
s.aincrs; imprisoned by court-martial.
0 abstainers, rs non-abstainers;
granted good conduct pay, 272 alb
stainers, 251 non-abstainers; reduced,
abstainers, 81 non-aOstainers; deaths,
2 abstainers, II non-abstainers; de-
posits in savings banks. 27.02S rupees
by abstainers. IA, 1856 by non-abstainers.
"What these figures signify says DR..
Burns. ''as TO improved morality any
one can perceive, though it is hardly
possible to estimate the increased eff
ficiency of the army We're such an inn
provement to prevail throughout its
whole extent. .''-Nontreal Witness.
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CHOICE SELECTIONS.

We ask advice, but we mean ap-
probation.-Colton.
If You would create something,
You must be something.-Goethe.
Friendship is always profitable;
love is frequently injurious. Laberius.
Religion is the hospital of the souls
that the world has wounded. -. PETIT
Sem.
He who loves with purity considers
not the gift of the lover. but the love
of the giver.-Thomas Kenpis.
Ceremony keeps MP things; it's like
penny glass tD rich spirit, or some
excellent water; without it the water is
soon split and the spirit lost. Selden.
We can not have things our own
way in the world, and what u blessing
it is! Itis where we are opped some
times that our blessing begins. -Uaited
Presbyterian. ...--.r-. --.,--.-.
We know not verify that which is
laid up for us. There are such beauti-
tul things put by. In Gods house and
in Gods time there are such treasures.
Mrs. 4. D. 7. Whitney.
We can not live on bread alone;
we need every word of God. We can
not live on air alone we need an at
mosphcre of living souls. We must be
constantly giving ourselves away: we
must dwell in houses of infinite depen-
dence, or sit alone in the waste of a
goddess universc.-George Macdonald.
Shall this spiritual year be opened
and your heart remain closed to those
whom God has bound to you by tho ties
of kindred9 Will you carry on the sur
face the semblance of interest and
friendship, while in your heart you
cherish memories of fancied Sights and
injuries? Will you let the friend of
years standing pass out of your life be-
cause time and circumstances have
prevented the intimate relations of for
mer yearsP Win you open graves in
your own heart iu which to bury the
highest part, the best part, of your
own nature-unselfish sympathy and
Union. e-A - lsfs ~
Too commonly men are content to
''mind earthly things They seek for
riches, honor. fame, pleasure, power,
and other like objects Of merely tenn
poral sort, as il there We're nothing
higher or nobler inviting their atten-
tion. But the resurrection OF Christ
demonstrates tha: death does not end
all; and so, by stirring us up to lay
hold on eternal life. 1t opens up new
and worthier field for our ambition. 1t
shows us that there is another exist
cnce before us. of which this is but the
outer porch. and II bids us aim after
honor and happiness in that.-Km. N.
Taylor, N. D. s ~ Af
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A Blast Against Beer.

For some years decided inclination
has been apparent all over the country
to give up the use of whisky and other
strong alcohols, using as a substitute
beer and other compounds. This is
evidently founded on the idea that beer
is not harmful. and contains a large
amount of nutriment; also that bitters
may have some medical quality which
will neutralize the alcohol which it con-
ceals, etc. These theories are without
confirmation in the observation of ply
sicians. The use of beer is found to
produce n species of degeneration of all
the organs; profound and deceptive
fatty deposits, diminished circulation,
condition of congestion and perveision
of functional activities, local inhamma-
tion OF both the liver and kidneys, are
constantly present. Intellectually u
stupor amounting almost to paralysis
arrests the reason, changing all tho
higher faculties into mere animalism.
sensual, selfish, sluggish, varied only
with paroxysms of anger that are sense
less and brutal. In appearance the
beer-drinker may be the picture Of
health. but in reality he is most in
capable of resisting disease. A slight
injury. severe cold or u shock to the
body or mind will commonly provoke
acute disease ending fatally. ....
Compared with inebriates who use
different kinds of alcohol, he is more
incurable and more generally diseased.
The constant use Of beer every day
gives the system no recuperation, but
steadily lowers the vital forces. 1t ia
our observation that beer-drinking In
this country produces the very lowest
kind of inebriety, closely allied tn
criminal insanity. The most dangerous
class Of rufiians in our cities are beer
drinkers. american.
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No Lie In NAllara.

There is no lie in nature, no discord in the
revelations of science, in the laws Of the
universe. Infinite, pure, unfallen earth
supporting Titans, fresh as the morning Of
creation, those great laws endure; your
only true democrats, too-for nothing is too
great or too small for them to take note Of.
No tiniest gnat or speck of dust but they
feed it, guide it and preserve it, Hail and
snow, wind and vapor, fulfilling their
Makers word; and, like him, too, hiding
themselves from the wise and prudent, and
revealing themselves unto babes. 1t is the
child-like, simple, patient reverent heart
which science at once demands and culti-
Yates. To prejudice or hate. to self -conccit
or ambition, she proudly shuts her treas
uries-to open them to men of humble
heart, whom this world thinks, simple
dreamers-her Newtons and Owens and
Faradays.-Fdrm and Fireside
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A Dangerous Little Animal.

The name porcupinc is derived from
the French words pore, a hog, and epim,
spine.
The porcupinc has short legs, sharp
claws. and short, broad tail. Like
the rabbit, it has chiscl teeth for gnaw-
ing. 1t moves slowly, both in walking
and in climbing. AS it can not run, it
has an excellent way of defending it.
self Its back and sides are covered
with sharp-pointed quills from two to
three inches long. When the porcu-
pine is moving about, these quilts lie
back flat like hair; but when there is
any danger they stand out straight.
When it sees an enemy approach,
it folds up its paws, curls its head
under its forelcgs, and forms itself into
bundle of sharp quilts. If an animal
should snap at it then, the quills would
get into its mouth and stick there.
Each quill has barbs like II fish-hook,
and animals have often died from the
quills working into their flesh after
having tried to bite porcupine.
The quills easily break off, but as
they grow like hair. the animal is al
ways well supplied with II good means
of defense. 1t can throw up its back,
or strike hard blow with its tail,
driving the quills into the flesh of its
enemy. When hunting the porcupine.
men are very careful not to be struck
by the tail. but they watch their chance
to strike the animal on the nose with q
club. which kills it at once. . g..
The porcupine is covered with a
coat of warm, soft fur besides the thick,
sharp-pointed quilts. 1t is very slug
gish. and sleeps nearly all the winter,
only coming out occasionally to get
something to eat. 1t C easily climb
trees, and feeds upon bark. leaves and
tender ears of Indian corn. 1t lives in
hollow trees and in holes among rocks.
r. E., in Children's Friend.